{"id":55331,"date":"2025-08-09T16:43:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T16:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/55331\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T16:43:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T16:43:11","slug":"albertas-unemployment-rate-takes-a-big-jump-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/55331\/","title":{"rendered":"Alberta\u2019s unemployment rate takes a big jump in July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>The number of Albertans looking for work has taken a big jump according to the latest numbers from Statistics Canada, released Friday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In Alberta, 17,000 jobs disappeared in July, compared to June when the province gained 30,000 jobs.<\/p>\n<p>The job losses caused Alberta\u2019s unemployment rate to increase to 7.8 per cent in July \u2014 up from 6.8 per cent in June.<\/p>\n<p>The 1 per cent jump in the jobless number was by far the worst in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Nationally, the unemployment rate was unchanged at 6.9 per cent, although Canada lost 41,000 jobs in July.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Canada shed 41K jobs in July, unemployment held steady at 6.9%'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ONLINE_STILL_JULY_JOBS.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t0:28<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCanada shed 41K jobs in July, unemployment held steady at 6.9%\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Saskatchewan\u2019s unemployment rate of 5 per cent was the lowest amongst all the provinces.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>It was also the lone province to record an increase in employment in July when it gained 3,500 jobs.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tThe unemployment rate increased in 3 of Alberta\u2019s 4 larges cities in July. Only Red Deer saw a slight decline in the jobless rate.\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGlobal News\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The unemployment rate also increased last month in three of the four largest cities in Alberta.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>In Calgary it went from 7.4 per cent in June to 7.7 per cent in July.<\/p>\n<p>In Edmonton it increased from 7.5 per cent in June to 7.9 per cent in July.<\/p>\n<p>Lethbridge\u2019s unemployment rate jumped from 5.2 per cent in June to 5.7 per cent in July.<\/p>\n<p>In Red Deer the unemployment rate declined slightly from 5.5 per cent in June to 5.4 per cent in July.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013with files from The Canadian Press.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Canada on track for \u2018mild recession\u2019 this year: Deloitte'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/SUMMER_OUTLOOK.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2:04<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCanada on track for \u2018mild recession\u2019 this year: Deloitte\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size The number of Albertans looking for work has taken a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[30262,84,1294,1371,229,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-55331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-alberta-unemployment-rate","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-jobs","12":"tag-politics","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}